Legends And Lyrics
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CAMBYSES AND THE MACROS I AN BOW. 71 Slowly he rose, and pointing southward, said, " Seest thou, Prexaspes, yonder slender palm, A mere wan shadow quivering in the light, Topped by a ghostly leaf-crown ? Prithee, now, Can this, thy famous Bactrian, standing here, Cleave with his shaft a hand s breadth marked there on?" To which Prexaspes answered, "Nay, my lord; I spake of feats compassed by mortal skill, Not of Gods prowess. " Unto whom, the King: "And if myself, Prexaspes, made essay, Think s...t thou, wise counselor, I too should fail?" " Needs must I, sire, " albeit the courtier s voice Trembled, and some dark prescience bade him pause, " Needs must I hold such cunning more than man s; And for the rest, I pray thy pardon, King, But yester-eve, amid the feast and dance, Thou tarried st with the beakers overlong. " The thick, wild, treacherous eyebrows of the King, That looked a sheltering ambush for ill thoughts Waxing to manhood of malignant acts, These treacherous eyebrows, pent -house fashion, closed O er the black orbits of his fiery eyes, Which, clouded thus, but flashed a deadlier gleam On all before him : suddenly as fire, Half choked and smouldering in its own dense smoke, Bursts into roaring radiance and swift flame, Touched by keen breaths of liberating wind, So now Cambyses eyes a stormy joy Stormily filled; for on Prexaspes son, 72 LEGENDS AND LYRICS.
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CAMBYSES AND THE MACROS I AN BOW. 71 Slowly he rose, and pointing southward, said, " Seest thou, Prexaspes, yonder slender palm, A mere wan shadow quivering in the light, Topped by a ghostly leaf-crown ? Prithee, now, Can this, thy famous Bactrian, standing here, Cleave with his shaft a hand s breadth marked there on?" To which Prexaspes answered, "Nay, my lord; I spake of feats compassed by mortal skill, Not of Gods prowess. " Unto whom, the King: "And if myself, Prexaspes, made essay, Think s...t thou, wise counselor, I too should fail?" " Needs must I, sire, " albeit the courtier s voice Trembled, and some dark prescience bade him pause, " Needs must I hold such cunning more than man s; And for the rest, I pray thy pardon, King, But yester-eve, amid the feast and dance, Thou tarried st with the beakers overlong. " The thick, wild, treacherous eyebrows of the King, That looked a sheltering ambush for ill thoughts Waxing to manhood of malignant acts, These treacherous eyebrows, pent -house fashion, closed O er the black orbits of his fiery eyes, Which, clouded thus, but flashed a deadlier gleam On all before him : suddenly as fire, Half choked and smouldering in its own dense smoke, Bursts into roaring radiance and swift flame, Touched by keen breaths of liberating wind, So now Cambyses eyes a stormy joy Stormily filled; for on Prexaspes son, 72 LEGENDS AND LYRICS.
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